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Text Samaritan


I am one of those sort of people whom everyone & everybody pours their heart out to, on buses, in bus-queues, outside shops, in pubs...Always there is someone or somebody who comes up to me & tells me their life-history of unmitigated gloom.


I went to bingo the other night, but I never finished a single game, because all of the time, this old lady was bemoaning how her husband was a cripple, & how she never won anything "Unlike that old bag who's bleedin' havin' it off with the manager!" & how the bailifs called round the last night to take away their telly, her husband's only comfort, & how their bed was given to them by "Sally's army".

I tried the pictures, & blow me, if this old man doesn't plonk himself down next to me to tell me how his children wasted money on records & trashy clothes, & how they ignored him & swore at him after he had brought them up single-handed after the tragic death of their mother in a car accident a few years back, & how his ungrateful kids had sold their mother's jewelery to buy drugs...

So it goes on, I am thinking of of wearing a badge with the word "Samaritan" on it. I am becoming very depressed myself. I am also becoming very poor, because I find myself giving to every "ill-lucker" twenty quid.

I have become so depressed at the way people eat their hearts out to me, I have began to stop people in the street, just to tell them what a fool I've been all my life.

Lord Pineapple.

its not foolish to help people
however thair has to be a point when all you want to do is shoput STOP
i know that you feel annoyed but thinlk of it as a complenent that people find you so easy to talk to
i have had this trouble as well....
an old man came up to me in the highj street wile i was waiting on a friend
and started to tell me about how he hurt his ankel and how his pention
will not come till the next day so i end up giving him £10 just so my
consince dosent bug me for the rest of the day.....
but that only happens every so often......
and really think of how much you are helping those people by listening to them.

~Anthea